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AN ADDEESS 



THE "PEOPLE" OF THE SEVEEAL SOVEREIGN STATES OF THE 

UNITED STATES, ON THE FRAUDS COMMITTED ON THEIR 

ELECTIVE FEANCHISE, UNDEE OFFICIAL ORDERS, AND 

THE DANGER OF THE PEOPLE BEING REDUCED TO 

MERE SERFS TO A TYRANT DESPOT, UNDER THE 

PRETEXT OF NEGRO FREEDOM, MILITARY 

„ , C NECESSITY, UNION AND LIBERTY. 



The Hon. George W. Woodward had a majority of the legal votes of 
Pennsylvania of over 100,000 : so also had justice Lowrie. The 
Executive, a member of the Supreme Bench, and two-thirds of the Re- 
publican members of the Legislature of this State, hold their offices by 
untold and unheard of frauds on the ballot-box. One-half of their 
members now in Congress were elected in 1862 by the same foul means. 
The Hon. C. L. Vallandigham was elected Governor of Ohio by over 
60,000 majority of the legal votes of that Slate, all of which I clearly 
show in this address. 



My Fellow Countrymen : 

Can a Government long exist in peace, happiness and tranquillity, 
whose fundamental principles, and entire organization, originated in 
.infidelity, deception, falsehood, slander, bribery, human sacrifices to 
selfish ambition, war, coercion, robbery, treason, and the most flag- 
rant frauds ever perpetrated upon the public and private rights, and 
the elective franchise of a once free, sovereign, and happy "people." 
Such is the present usurped, monarchical power, now ruling the des- 
tinies of a subjugated "people" of the several sovereign States of this 
once great and happy nation ? 

I will say here that I do not include all Kepublicans in the charges 
of premeditated treason (against the Constitutional Government of 
the United States) hereafter made, for a vast number of them are 
being deceived by their designing leaders, and made to believe that all 
who desire a Christian peace 'ami restoration of the Union of States, 
and in state rights, are traitors and rebels, and all else that is bad. 
They have such unshaken confidence in such traitors, and would be 
perpetual despots, as Lincoln, Seward, Chase, Staunton, Lovejoy, 

Sumner, and B Butler, that they refuse, indignantly refuse, to 

investigate the subject for themselves, or to listen to any facts what- 
ever, from the only true friends of the Government, as formed by 
our great fathers of the revolution. They will not believe this 
truth, although God may speak to them; therefore I pity them. 
But those Abolition Gospel preachers herein alluded to, I cannot 
pit}-, for it is their religious duty at least, to investigate the scrip- 
tural subject for themselves; and further, they have the. time and 




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education. Therefore my allusions are intended to embrace all such, 
but not the true men of God, such as Bishop Hopkins and the great 
Dr. A. Clark, and many others of well known truthfulness. 

But my fellow countrymen, how is it that so many people of this 
enlightened country can be so blinded by such men, that they cannot 
see where their designing leaders are taking them, and the terrible 
abyss of irrevocable disgrace and ruin into which they are daily 
plunging themselves by following the ambitious tyrants who have 
already destroyed the best and only genuine, humane, and Chris- 
tian government on the face of the globe. A few more strides 
under the direction of those infidel, tyrant usurpers, will land them 
where political consolation and hope, through the elective franchise, 
will never reach their political abodes to lighten their political 
burthens. They in some way are lead to think that they who fer- 
vently adhere to the old Constitutional Government, truly democratic, 
as adopted by Washington and his holy and pure compatriots, 
(whose only ambition was to elevate and bless the whole American 
"people" alike, and place them on a political equality, and their pos- 
terity through all future time) are the only ones who are to suffer 
under the iron heel of a military despotism. They seem to forget 
that all the subjects, white, black, and red, will be yoked with iron, 
and haltered with steel alike, on a social and political equality. I 
will now show some of the immense and untold frauds that have 
been recently practiced upon the ballot box or the elective franchise 
of the "people" of this great and once happy nation, in 1862 and 1863, 
in order to effect the ruin and disgrace of all the "people" in this the 
great State of Pennsylvania, and doubtless in all others, wherovcr it 
was necessary for the certain consummation of their most diabolical 
treason and usurpation. And I hope that every lover of constitu- 
tional liberty, and safe and peaceful homes, will look well into the 
following calculations. The total vote in Pennsylvania at the Prc.- 
sidential election of 1860, at which time I suppose there was the 
greatest excitement that had ever before taken place in this State 
on a like occasion — there having been four candidates for the Presi- 
dency — every means was used without limit, to arouse the people of 
the whole State to the greatest excitement and alarm. And it was 
believed and declared after that ever to be remembered and fatal 
result, that the whole people voted on that occasion, with as few ex- 
ceptions as possible, and that the vote all told was . . 476,442 
But at the Governor's election, only one month prior, the 

total vote of the State was 492,453 



Loss in one month in the State 16,017 

Now I ask all candid men to look at this, and ask themselves the 
question, was it not most remarkable that there should have been 
16,017 votes (at the Presidential election of 1860) short of the Go- 
vernor's vote just one month prior? And I do think that every 
candid, thinking man, who remembers the great excitement in the 
Presidential campaign of 1860, will conclude that there must have 
been a gi-eat mistake, to say the least of it. But let it be remem- 
bered that, at the Governor's election of 1860, only the people of one 
of our neighboring States were confined at home with their own 
election, and at the Presidential election, one month after, the people 



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of all the States had to stay at home to attend to their own State 
elections for a President of the United States, and, therefore, could 
not go into another State to vote. There were many people unde- 
cided for whom they should vote at the Governor's election of 1860,and 
consequently, did not vote; therefore, it was helieved hy far-seeing- 
men that there would bo an increase at the Presidential election, 
over the Governor's electiou, of from 85,000 to 50,000 votes; yet it 
fell short 16,017. But in order to be liberal towards our Abolition 
fanatics, I will take the highest vote of 1860 as the standard, though 
I believe that there were counted out of the ballot-boxes at least 
50,000 more votes than there were legal votes cast in the State. I 
will now begin with the Presidential election of 1856, that the reader 
may see the figures. The total vote for the three Presidential can- 
didates was 433,838 

The total vote of the State at the Governor's election of 1857, 

one year after, was 863,137 



Governor's vote fell off in one year ..... 70,701 
Now, I would like some good man to explain to me how the vote 
for Governor in 1860 should be so much above the Governor's elec- 
tion of 1857, when there was just as much excitement, and three 
candidates in the field — Packer, Wilmot and Hazelhurst — yet the 
vote of 1860 excelled that of 1857, 129,322. The natural increase 
does not exceed two per cent, per annum. That would be 21,788 to 
add to the vote of 1857, the Governor's election, which was 363,137 
Natural increase to the election of 1860 .... 21,788 



The total vote of 1860 should have been .... 384,925 
According to the Census Peports of 1860, 1850 and 1840, the in- 
crease could not have been any more than two per cent, per annum, 
yet the increase in 1860 over that of 1857 was a fraction under 36 
per cent. — 12 per cent, per annum — or 129,322. To be entirely on 
the safe side of correctness, I will take the Gubernatorial vote of 
1860 (so that no candid man can charge me with extremes), and 
compare it with the Presidential vote of 1856, at which time there 
was the greatest excitement that had ever before taken place. There 
were three candidates in the field, and such candidates that no man 
could help making a choice and casting his vote ; and it was believed 
at the time that the frauds were enormous, as the Gubernatorial vote 
the following year proves, which, as I have shown, fell off 70,701. 

That vote was 433,838 

The natniral increase for four years, .... 34,707 



The vote of 1860 should not have exceeded . . 468,545 

It could not have been any more, and the proof is such that every 
candid thinking man will see that there must have been immense frauds 
to have got it up that high. And I have added two per cent, a year 
natural increase, or eight per cent. Yet the Gubernatorial vote of 

1800 was . ... , 492,459 

An extraordinary excess of 23,904 

It will be remembered that up to this time we had no men in the 
field, and no war to take voters away on election day. I will now 
show by the clearest demonstration that the frauds on the elective 



franchise in 1862 and 1863, were beyond anything of the kind ever 
before committed. No pirates or highwaymen have ever been guilty 
of more diabolical acts of treason and fraud on the face of the globe. 
Don't accuse the Democratic Party of these frauds and corruptions, 
for let it ever be remembered that they had neither Greenbacks, Gold, 
nor the key of the public crib of this State nor of the United States, 
paper mills, nor Provost Marshals; therefore, it was utterly impossi- 
ble for them to have committed any such robbery on the rights of 
the "people" and even if they could, and had been wicked enough, 
they were confident that they had not the slightest need of anything 
of the kind, for they knew thai they had a vast majority of the legal votes 
of this State, and the Abolitionists knew as well as they did, or no 
30,000 picked men would have been sent into this State by the Sec- 
retary of War on election day, pledged to vote the Abolition Ticket 
in 1863. The elections of 1862 of nearly all the states had satisfied 
them of the vast Democratic majority in this State and many others, 
There having been large Democratic majorities in all the larger 
States, though the Abolition traitors thought they had stuffed the 
ballot-boxes with greenbacks enough in 1862 to carry them all for 
their treasonable "purposes. They claimed avast majority in this 
State, as well as the others; but when the votes were counted out 
they found themselves minus; therefore, they trebled their frauds in 
I860, as will be seen in the following tabular illustrations : 
The total vote of this State in 1860 was counted or multiplied 

to . 492,459 

This was 16,017 above the vote at the Presidential election, 
one month after. The natural increase, according to 
this, could not have exceeded 29,547 

If there had been no war in 1863 the vote should have been, 

according to the vote of 1860 522,006 

According to the message of Governor Curtin to the Legislature 
of 1864, we had sent from this State to the war, 277,409 men, but I 
will call it 267,000, to be on the sure side. The great number of re- 
giments that have returned since the election of 1863, only average 
about one-third of the number they took away with them, therefore 
we have a right to deduct two-thirds of the 267,000 soldiers sent to 
war, even if all the rest could have been at home on election day and 
voted. But I will only deduct one-third, . . . 89,000 

This would leave the vote of 1863, all told, . : . 433,006 
The Democratic vote for Governor in 1863, was . . 254,171 

This would have left Curtin, all told, .... 178,835 
Hon. Geo. W. Woodward's majority, over the Abolitionists, 75,336 
But we have a right to claim a deduction of two-thirds of 

the army; this would leave the Democratic majority 164,336 

But we have an undoubted right to claim a deduction of at least 
one-half of the number of men sent into the war, and who were from 
home on that account. In 1S62 it was said we had over 200,000 
soldiers in the war at the time of election of that year, therefore we 
claim that 100,000 legal voters were out of the State on the election 
day of 1802. 
The leo-al vote of the State, with two years natural increase, 

if all voted, * 512,157 



But we have a right to deduct one-half of the army in 1862, 

(for none were sent home to vote,) .... 100,000 
The total vote of this State could not have exceeded . . 412,157 
The total Democratic vote of that year was . . . 219,060 
The Abolition vote of the State could not have exceeded . 193,091 
The Democratic majority of 1862, should have been . 25,975 

But we all know that not one-half, nor one-fourth of the army and 
others, could have been at home to vote in 1862 ; none were sent 
home, for the Abolitionists thought they could stuff the ballot boxes 
iv I Lli enough to carry the State without them. This would have 
made the Democratic majority in 1862, over 75,000. The vote of 
1862, according to the Tribune Almanac, was . . . 434,756 
This gives the Abolitionists all they ask for that year. The 

natural increase for one year, 8,695 

The total legal vote of 1863, should have been, provided 
there were no more voters gone in 1863, than there were 

in 1862, 443,451 

Hon. George W. Woodward's vote in 1863, was . . 254,171 
The Abolition vote of the State could not have exceeded, in 

legal votes, 189,280 

Judge Woodward's majority should have been . . 64,891 

In this we allow all the Abolition traitors ask. Governor Curtin 
says there were 267,000 sent into the field from this State, and I will 
.still allow that one-half could have been at home on election day to 
vote, which is perfectly ridiculous, to suppose that even one-third 
could have been at home to vote at the last election; but we will say 

half, 133,500 

This would leave the legal vote of the State . . . 309,951 

Judge Woodward's vote was 254,171 

The Abolition vote of the State in 1863, . . . 55,780 

Judge Woodward's majority in 1863, .... 198,391 
Yet the Abolitionists allege to have given Governor Curtin 269,496 
When all they could have got in 1863, was . . . 55,780 

Frauds by stuffing the ballot boxes, &c 203,716 

Every candid man will acknowledge that it was impossible that wo 
should have polled 523,667 votes in 1863, when in 1860, under a far 
greater excitement, we only polled, with all the enormous frauds of 
that year, 492,459, when we had no war nor anything else to take 
voters out of the State on election day. Doubtless this will appear 
erroneous to those who have not before thought on this subject, nor seen a 
tabular illustration of the facts in the case, as I have calculated from 
the election of 1862, and I am compelled to confess that it astounded 
me when I had completed the additions and subtractions and saw the 
result. I will allow that 233,500 of the 267,000 called out of the State 
by the war were at home and voted on election day, which was 
utterly impossible; then Judge Woodward would have still had 
98,391 majority. I will now give another illustration, in which I 
will give the Abolitionists all they claim, except the 269,496 legal 
votes they allege to have polled at our late gubernatorial election. 
And every truthful and candid man must see and confess the enor- 
mity of the frauds in 1863 on the ballot box. The total vote in the 
entire State in 180(0 for Governor, was .... 492,459 



The Presidential Vote, one month after, with the greatest 
effort, and with the government patronage of both 
State and the United States, . . . 476,442 

Less than at the Gubernatorial election, . . . 16,017 

I will add 6 per cent, natural gain to 1860, . . 29,547 

It was utterly impossible that the vote of 1863 could have 

exceeded, ...... 522,006 

even if the whole country had been at peace, and not a voter from 
home on election day, but Gov. Curtin said in his message that we 
had sent 267,000 men to the war. We will suppose one-half could 
have been at home and voted in their own precincts ; therefore, I will 
deduct only one-half of the voters sent to the war, supposing that 
number were in the field where they could not get home to vote, 
some being killed, wounded, died of sickness, or sick in foreign hos- 
pitals, where they could not vote on that fatal day, . 133,500 
The legal vote of the State in 1863 evidently could not have 

exceeded 388,506 

Of this number Judge Woodward got . • . . . 254,171 



The Abolition vote of the State could only have been . . 134,335 
Judge Woodward's majority over Gov. Curtin . . 119,836 

I will repeat, that the Democrats can not be charged with any part 
of this enormous fraud, for even if they had been disposed to have taken 
part in it, they had it not in their power to have done so for reasons 1 
have already given. And further : Every Democratic voter in the 
State went to the polls on that fatal day with a palpitating heart, 
expecting his right of suffrage would be interfered with by Federal 
authority. And, further : A report got into the papers that a Provost 
Marshal would be at every precinct in the State to arrest deserters.; 
therefore, thousands were kept from the polls on that day. And the 
Democrats knew in addition to that, that there were secret Admin- 
istration spies at all the voting places in the State, and also efts-Union 
League Vigilant Committees at them all; therefore, # was not in 
their power to have had any hand in it. This calculation does not in- 
clude the vast numbers kept from the polls, who had been drafted - 
and refused to report, and feared to show themselves at the windows ; 
nor the vast member of votes polled by Democrats and by some mys- 
terious hand changed to Abolition votes in the ballot-boxes, as 
in the First Ward of Pittsburg, where only 78 votes were found for 
Judge Woodward, the Democratic candidate for Governor, and 187 
men went forward and swore, or offered to swear, that they had 
voted for Judge Woodward in that ward. Without these losses by 
fright and fraud, the frauds in the State were at least 134,650 ; that 

is, the vote was made to foot up 523,667 

The legal vote of the State could not have exceeded at the 

last Gubernatorial election -, 389,017 

This leaves a clear fraud of 134,650 

In this calculation, I am sure, no candid, fair, calculating man, will 
charge me with unfairness or extravagance, for no circumstantial 
evidence could show up a crime clearer to the understanding of every 
candid, honest man in the whole world. It is beyond all dispute, and 
out of the reach of successful contradiction, that the election of this State 



was carried as above. I will give one more illustration of this State 
election last year, and pass on. Gov. Curtin says in his Message to 
the Legislature of 1864, that this State had sent into the war, 277,409 
men. I will now admit, for argument, that they were all home and. 
voted at the Governor's election of 1863, and that nine-tenths voted 
for Curtin and one-tenth only voted lor Woodward. The total vote 

could not then have exceeded 521,996 

Judge Woodward's vote was 254,171 

The one-tenth of the army vote would have been . . . 217,740 

This would have made the Democratic vote . . . 281,911 

And left the Abolition vote 240,085 

Even this calculation would have given Woodward 41,826 majority. 
No Republican of any knowledge of politics would attempt to claim 
any more than I have given them in this table. "We all know that 
at least one-half of the army were Democrats, and a large majority 
of them are of that party, as was proved by the army vote of 1861. 
But no candid Republican will venture to claim any more than 
the above. In all the tables except this one I have thrown off of 
the army vote 10,409, for soldiers under age. I have called it 267,000. 
Working and laboring men and women look at these figures ! These 
immense frauds are committed by the Abolition leaders to take your 
rights from you, and to reduce j^ou to negro equality, and, if possi- 
ble, a little lower. Will you not lose your lives rather than to be 
thus degi-aded by having your manhood taken from you ? Awake 
from your slumber, and come forth and resolve to have your rights 
at tli'.' ballot-box, or die! 

And the election of Ohio was carried the same way. The frauds 
on the ballot-box of that State were even gx-eater than in this State, 
in order to defeat that greatest of all patriots, the Hon. C. L. Val- 
landigham, and only because they knew him to be true to the Con- 
stitution and the Union. He was banished for his true patriotism and 
loyalty, and not for his disloyalty. We have substantial evidence that 
the enlistments from that State contained avast majority of Val- 
landigham Democrats. Soldiers in the field from that State can vote 
in the field any time within ten days after their State election day. 
The army return stood for the Abolition candidate for 

Governor, 41,467 

Vallandigham, the Democratic Candidate, . . . 2,288 

Abolition Majority of the Army "Vote, .... 39,179 

No man or woman who knows anything about elections in Ohio will 
hesitate to denounce this vote as a gross and diabolical fraud. The 
total state vote was 476,223, Brough's majority, the Abolition Candi- 
date for Governor, was 101,099. In 1862 the Democrats carried the 
State by 5,577 majority, the total vote of the State was 363,087; at 
the Governor's election in 1861, the total vote of the State was 358,- 
791 ; at the Presidential election of 1860, with four candidates in the 
field for that high office, such was the variety among the candidate* 
that the most scrupulous could not fail to make a choice, and vote 
with a clear conscience; and in addition to that the very heavens 
seemed almost to have been moved, and the earth almost shaken. 
Money was scattered like dirt among the people. Such an excite- 
ment had never preceded it on any occasion in that State; yet the 
total vote of the State on that fatal day was 442,441. There was no 



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war, nor anything else to take men from their homes, and thousands were 
brougbtt forward and voted who never had voted before, or very sel- 
dom. Yet on that memorable occasion the total vote of the State 

was only, . . 442,441 

The natural increase could have been only, . . . 17,697 



All they could have given legally was, . . . 400,188 

I shall take no notice of this army vote, for it was too clearly a 
diabolical fraud. I am told that they had absent at the time of 
their late election, about 230,000 in the army and other places in the 
War Department, of which none or but few had reason to go home 
to vote. Yet 1 will allow one-third, which would leave out 153,332 
This would leave the total vote of the State . . . 306,806 

Hon. C-. L. Vallandigham's vote 185,274 

This would leave Mr. Brough, Abolitionist, ... 121,531 

Mr. Vallandigham's majority, 63,742 

I have allowed that 76,666 soldiers voted, when they only claim 
43,755; I can throw off 60,000 majority, and Mr. Vallandigham 
was legally elected by 3,742 majority. But notwithstanding the 
great efforts and excitements in 1860, 1861 and 1862, yet in 1863, 
with between 200,000 and 300,000 out of the State, and as they could 
vote in the field, they had no occasion to go home to vote, they 
allege to have polled 476,223. This was simply ridiculous, and as 
bare faced a fraud as ever was committed on the globe, and (doubt- 
less) done under influence of Federal green backs inside of the win- 
dows as in this State. This vote was larger than the largest vote 
ever before cast in that State by 113,136, except the Presidential 
vote of 1860, and it exceeded that vote 33,782. Oh men and brethren, 
if you have any love left for constitutional liberties, and your peace- 
ful and happy homes, open your eyes for God's sake, and look at the 
yokes of iron and halters of steel set for you in the name of liberty 
and union. Bise in the strength God hath given you or you are 
ruined, and posterity will rise up and curse us through successive 
generations for our imbecility and cowardice, which shall have en- 
tailed such disgrace and ruin upon them. I will give another illus- 
tration to prove that our Abolition administration knew that a vast 
majority of the people in all the States except three or four, are op- 
posed to them and their treason. The election of 1862 satisfied them 
of this fact. If the elections of that year had not disappointed them, 
there would have been no Federal interference with the State elec- 
tions in 1863 — 30,000 picked men would not have been sent into this 
State at our election to vote the Abolition ticket, and sent too at the 
expense of the Federal Government, and 134,650 votes would not 
hare been added to the list of voters after the polls closed, neither 
would there have been a much larger amount of fraud committed in 
Ohio, nor armed troops enough sent into Missouri, Kentucky, Mary- 
land and Delaware on their respective election days, to take charge 
of all their voting places to drive Democrats away from casting their 
votes, under a false pretext of militaiy necessity; when they knew 
that all they feared was the loss of the money, place and power, by 
which they may destroy this great and glorious government, that they 
may make slaves of us all. Therefore these untold and unheard of 
frauds have been committed on the constitutional rights of the people 
of this whole nation. This alone ought to satisfy all lovers of con- 



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stitutional liberty, and much more professing Christians and Chris- 
tian ministers. They know that the majority is against them in 
nearly all the States. 

To prove that this war is not waged against the sovereign powers 
of the independent States for constitutional freedom, or even the rights 
of conscience, by the Federal Administration, but for the subjugation 
of all the sovereign States of the Union, and to establish a great 
central despotism, to be secured and perpetuated by military power. 
I will quote one official act of the Federal usurpation, called, 

PULPIT ORDER. ' 

Head-quarters, Ifbrfolk and Portsmouth, 
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 11, 1864. 
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 8, 
All places of public worship in Norfolk and Portsmouth are hereby placed under 
the control of the Provost Marshal of Norfolk and Portsmouth respectively, who 
shall see the pulpits properly filled by displacing, when necessary, the present in- 
cumbents, and substituting men of known loyalty and the same sectarian denomi- 
nation, either military or civil, subject to the approval of the Commanding General. 
They shall see that the churches are open freely to all. officers and soldiers, white 
or colored, at the usual hour of worship, and at other times, if desired ; and they 
shall see that no insult or indignity be offered to them, either by word, look or 
gesture, on the part of the congregation. The necessary expenses will be levied, 
us far as possible, in accordance with the previous usages or regulations of each con- 
gregation respectively. 

No property shall be removed, either public or private, without permisssion from 
these head-quarters. P>y command of 

Brigadier-General E. A. WILD. 

This tyrannic, arbitrary, despotic usurpation of Federal authority, 
seems to me ought to be enough in itself to awaken and arouse every 
American with fierce indignation, and bring him or her erect, and 
compel them to cry aloud for " liberty or death." Democrats, and all 
lovers of constitutional liberty, and rights of conscience, and peace, 
prosperity, and civil protection and safety, will you still fold your 
arms and hope for peace and happiness, until the last vestige of hope 
is clean gone? May the arm of truth awaken you to your sensibili- 
ties. If you do not wake soon, the time is not far distant when such 
orders as the above will be issued to all the churches and free insti- 
tutions of this great and happy land, and we shall be forced to sit 
in church promiscuously with black African heathens and barbarians, 
with our Christian and civil rights placed at the disposal of some 
profane, drunken, debauched Provost Marshal. 

The party now in power intend to completely revolutionize the 
Xational and all the State Governments, and to establish a despotic 
government at Washington in their stead, and rule all the "people" 
and negroes with a rod of iron. But can such a government give 
peace and happiness to its subjects as I have described at the begin- 
ing of this address ? Christian men and women, look at this picture, 
and reflect before you take another step with the revolutionists of 
the present day, who are at the head of our national government. 
You who profess to believe that the ways of righteousness and truth 
are the only ways of safety, peace, happiness and union in this sin- 
stricken world, look at the facts I have given, with the pictures of 
arbitrary power already extant. Every charge I have made against 
the leaders of the party now in power in this great nation is true, 
and far more than proved by daily, occurrences from one end of this 
country to the other. I know most of the Republican papers refuse 



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to publish the mass of evidence that daily transpires; that proves to 
the clearest demonstration that this war is kept up for wholesale 
plunder, fraud and robbery. Newspapers that were once truthful, 
are now filled with the foulest and most debasing falsehoods and 
slanders. If you desire to know whither you are being led by these 
myrmidons of ruin and disgrace, take some Democratic paper, such 
as the Philadelphia Age, or the Journal of Commerce, of New York, 
or any other good Democratic paper or papers. No Union-loving 
person ought to be without the Philadelphia Age, and if the " people" 
only knew what they are losing by not reading that valuable sheet 
daily, they would not hesitate to pay three cents per day for it. I 
would not miss it for five times the amount. The Age is one of the 
most stirringly edited, truthful and dignified journals in the nation. 
Eepublicans, don't sacrifice your liberties for your prejudices, Take 
some Democratic journal, and you will see and learn the truth by 
which your eyes may be opened, and constitutional union and glory 
restored to all the people of this great nation. If you get a glimpse of 
the abyss of political ruin, on the verge of which you are now stand- 
ing, and which I so clearly see just before us, you will fly back with 
terrible fright. Open your eyes, for humanity's sake, for the next 
step may plunge us all beyond civil and political salvation. I warn 
you, as one who cannot be held by any party lines, outside of the 
organic law of the nation, or only so far as they are drawn around con- 
stitutional truth. I love constitutional liberty more than anything else 
on the globe; therefore, I have allied myself with the Democratic 
party, and warn you to stop and think, and turn and help us to 
rescue the Government from the hands of infidel tyrants and usupers, 
whose aims are to reduce us to servile bondage, down, down to an 
equality with black negro heathens. Yea, in a far worse condition than 
our own Southern negro slaves were to individual masters. For the 
masters were always interested in the personal welfare of their negro 
slaves ; but a tyrant monarch would never know us, nor care anything 
about our political pains. And then we shall be taxed beyond our 
ability to pay; but the Southern slaves had no taxes to pay ; there- 
fore, Southern negro slaves would be reduced to a far worse condition 
than before freedom. 

I have published a book of some 400 pages on the moral, social, 
political and natural questions of negro slavery, called "Pictures of 
Slavery and Freedom, '' in which I have fully discussed all those 
questions, and every lover of constitutional liberty and believer in 
Christianity ought to read it or Bishop Hopkins, which is still better, 
before he or she takes another step for the freedom and equality of 
that race. I tell you, when you see the facts, you will be alarmed at 
the course these infidel Abolitioiiists are pursuing, and the power 
they have already usurped. I tell you, my fellow countrymen, that 
this administration never intend to restore us to our liberties, and if 
you would read other papers than Eepublican or Abolition journals, 
you would soon see as we do, that they intend to ruin, not only the 
National G-overnment, but all the State Governments. The oath 
they put to all the opposition in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and 
Delaware at the polls, was, and is enough to satisfy every thinking 
man of this fatal fact. The oath was such that no truly loyal man 
could conscientiously take; because it compelled him to disobey 
the laws of his own sovereign State, and an oath too, unknown to the 



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Constitution and laws of the United States, and of his own sovereign 
State. Therefore it was a mere edict of usurpers and tyrants, to 
subjugate sovereign loyal States, and by that unlawful, ungodly course, 
to force the election of disloyal men to Congress and State Executives, 
and thereby destroy this great and glorious free government, that 
they may hold sovereign and despotic power over all the people of 
the nation. They plunged us into the quarrel with the Southern 
States, who were always loyal to the Constitution of the United States 
to the strictest letter, until they were driven by the disloyalty of the Nno 
England States to extremes, and finally to secession. We have been 
plunged into this war by the disloyal Abolition tyrants of the froe 
states, in order to get a great army into the field, that they might use it to 
overthrow the Government of the United States and establish a military 
despotism over us all, with themselves at its head. This war was 
got up for that purpose and no other. The freedom of the negro slave 
was and is a mere pretext, by which they might destroy the best and 
most God-like human government on which the sun has ever shone, 
to establish in its place one of terror and dismay to all the '• people" 
of the United States. We call again upon Democrats and all others 
who love our free institutions, to take a stand and look this matter 
fairly in the face, and ask yourselves the question, shall wo stand 
still and see our liberties wrenched from us, and make no effort to 
beat back the powers of darkness and ruin? Shall we crouch down 
like cowards, and worship at the shrine of a despotic tyrant, who 
has already murdered more than a million of the li people" of this 
great nation, and completely demoralized a greater portion of the 
remainder, to satisfy his wicked and despotic ambition, and brought 
reproach upon our great name as a greatly civilized, moral, pros- 
perous and powerful nation, and reduced us to a level, and even lower 
than any other civilized nation of the globe. Yea, even to extreme 
bai'barism, not surpassed by any pretended civilized nation on the 
globe at any period of time, considering the circumstances. Shall 
We do nothing to head off this tide of ruin and devastation ? Shall we 
fold our arms and say it will be a dangerous undertaking ! Suppose 
our revolutionary fathers had feared danger and bowed submission 
to King George ? would Lord Cornwallis ever have delivered the 
British sword to General Washington? no, never, and wo should this 
day be under the paw of the British Lion. If you would not now be 
reduced to a far worse condition than were our fathers under the 
Lion's Paw, you must not only risk something, but risk all for your 
liberty. Benjamin Franklin said, u that he who refused to risk his 
life for his liberty, was not worthy of liberty." Shall we give up so 
great a blessing as constitutional liberty, after our fathers shed so 
much blood and treasure for it and its blessings, and freely, without 
chai'ge, willed them to us, on the single condition that we should 
maintain them and hand them down to our children unadulterated, 
as we received them. .Remember what they cost our fathers, and 
the unmeasured peace, happiness and prosperity they have produced 
to every man who was faithful to the Constitution and laws. Xo, 
my fellow countrymen, let us resolve that we will respect no govern- 
mental power outside of the Constitutional Government as formed 
in 1787 by our holy fathers. Don't say we cannot do it. Look at 
the facts I have given in figures, and you will seo that we clearly 
have the power, for wo are vastly in the majority. And if we let 



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those Abolition tyrants destroy this great Constitutional Government 
without risking our all to save it, we and our postei'ity will be made 
slaves through all time to come, and we shall justly merit the 
drudgery of an iron-hearted king, and our children shall rise up and 
curse us for our imbecility and cowardice, which will have entailed 
such degi'adation and ruin upon them. The judgments of Jehovah 
will rest upon us, "and he will laugh at our calamity, and mock when 
our fear cometh." I tell you that God will forsake us unless we put 
forth all the powers he has given us in our own defence. Therefore 
let us prepare to have our rights at and through the ballot box, or 
die in the struggle. Let us resolve upon fair play in our elective 
franchise, if the issue of blood should be the result of so just a demand. 
Let justice, truth and righteousness be all we ask for in accordance 
with the Constitution of the United States. Therefore let us pro- 
claim to the minions of high-handed treason now in power in this 
nation, that if our liberties are to be taken from us, our lives shall go 
with them. Or let us say with the great Patrick Henry, " Give us our 
liberties, or give us death." 

A few words to the Christian ministers, or that part of them who have 
mainly plunged us into this destructive and damning civil war, and I am. 
done. 

I have believed in Christianity as far back as I can recollect, and 
am now a member, and have been for thirty-seven yeai's, of that 
branch of it which took the first steps against constitutional libex*ty 
in 1844, through which secession commenced at once. They were 
followed in 1845 by the next largest denomination, and so on, all 
the Christian churches ; except the Catholic, have, by their arbitrary 
and despotic course, destroyed the very thing they were ordained to 
establish. I am not only a member of the church, but can testify to 
the power of a simple faith in the Son of Cod, and believe that, 
without a pure, unadulterated Christianity, there can be no consti- 
tutional liberty to mankind, either civil or religious. And without 
it, libertinism, licentiousness and barbarism will predominate over 
one race, and a terrible despotism over the other. This is my Chris- 
tian faith or creed on this subject. And I appeal to Cod, who knows 
my heart, for my sincerity in what I say on the whole subject herein 
contained or alluded to, to whom I shall have to answer for my 
course in this whole matter, and by whom, I know, 1 shall be 
held responsible for all I have said, or shall say in this address. But 
you, pretended Christian ministers, have mainly plunged us into this 
most ungodly civil war. Those of you who have for the last fifty- 
five or sixty years, been proclaiming against the laws of Heaven and 
earth (made for the government of this part of this poor, fallen 
world), will have to stand side by side with me at the eternal bar 
of justice, and answer for your course, also, and for the ruin you 
have been instrumental in bringing this great nation into, and where 
prosperity, glory, peace, harmony, tranquillity and perfect union 
excelled any and everything outside the Kingdom of eternal Glory. 
Yea, it reached well nigh the gates of Heaven, and was still rising higher 
and higher in the scale of civilization and Christian pre-eminence. And 
this glorious peace, union and prosperity were consequent upon the 
purity and Christian forms of a National and State Government, 
formed and adopted, and agreed should be formed by your holy 
fathers in 1787. And until three years ago, when by your instru- 



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mentality mainly, the reins of the National Government were seized 
by the Abolition infidel tyrants of the nation, whose power had been 
gradually increasing under your infidel Abolition instrumentality 
from the desk reared up, and dedicated for the promulgation of the 
Gospel of God, our Saviour. You brought sovereign State after State 
to adopt rebellious and treasonable laws against the Constitution of 
the Nation, and the Union of the sovereign States, until you by fraud, 
falsehood and deception brought this ruin upon this great God- 
begotten national Government, as well as the sovereign State Govern- 
ments, through which God intended to show to the whole world of 
mankind what he intended man to be had Adam kept the divine law 
of Eden, as near as it could be shown through poor, fallen man. But, 
alas ! you have, by constantly interfering with sovereign State rights, 
driven the peace of Heaven from this land, without which there can 
be no Union of the States. Love towards and confidence in each 
other is the only source of National Union and constitutional liberty. 
For the first twenty years or more of our free institutions, you tried 
other pretexts than slavery for the destruction of liberty, and to 
head off the progress of Christian civilization. But for the last forty 
years you have made negro slavery, and negro freedom and equality, 
your great hobby to agitate the nation, when you knew that your 
Bible as clearly taught that negro slavery was ordained of God, as it 
teaches that Jesus Christ is His Son; and you, New England Aboli- 
tion Gospel preachers, taught this pro-slavery doctrine until the foreign 
slave trade was prohibited by law in 1808, and as long after that as 
it was safe to smuggle them into any of the slave ports of the world. 
And while some of you were teaching pro-slavery doctrines, many of 
you were denouncing the Union of States from your pulpits, as we 
were told by the Hon. John Q. Adams in 1827, whose letters on this 
subject will be seen by reference to the life of Thomas Jefferson, both 
of whom you claim as Abolitionists; thereforee it is not now negro 
philanthropy nor your conscientious scruples about negro slavery that 
you have determined to destroy this great God like Government, by 
your interference with sovereign State rights, under a pretext of 
conscientious scruples about negro slavery, but your great desire for 
a despotic government. You know, also, that every circumstance 
connected either directly or indirectly with the African race for the 
last thousand years, as clearly proves that they were originated for 
servile labor, as it is clear that the horse and ox were made for the 
use of the Caacassian race. One a human being, the other a brute, or 
one intelligent and the other instinctive. The negro being human, 
or intelligent, God so marked him in his physical nature and human 
appearance, that he might ever be distasteful to His, God's people, 
whom he declared should never be held as bond servants. The negro 
race never has been of any benefit to the world in any shape or form, 
except as bond servants, nor never will be. Fet, as bond servants, 
they have greatly benefitted the whole civilized world ; and 
whenever they shall be all free in this countiy, the civilized world 
will feel the fatal shock, and millions who never saw an African 
negro will be made to mourn and many will starve for food, and the 
last hope of that unfortunate race will have ended in ruin to them- 
selves. And the just judgment of Almighty God will rest upon us, 
and we (the people) shall justly be made slaves to some tyrant infidel 
monarch, whose executors will be a vast military force, constantly 



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under arms, to execute his own despotic edicts, while all civil courts 
of jurisprudence will be closed against us for ever. 

You have in the very face of the moral law had the audacity to 
charge God with wrong, crime, and inhumanity. And you have set 
yourselves up as his judges and called his great works of wisdom and 
mercy, the works of the devil. By so doing you have completely cor- 
rupted and demoralized a large portion of the Christian churches, 
and plunged this great nation into an exterminating civil war, and 
arrayed brother against brother, and son against father in deadly 
conflict, and saturated this glorious soil with innocent blood, and 
rushed hundreds of thousands to the bar of a just God in a state of 
military excitement, and maimed for life hundreds of thousands more, 
all of whom were peaceable, law-abiding citizens, until you seduced 
them into this deadly conflict by false doctrines proclaimed from 
what they supposed to bo the sacred desk. Yet through your instru- 
mentality, God designed to elevate the whole human family, and to 
redeem and save Africa from being slaughtered in cold blood, and 
feasted upon by their wretched kings, and from being by them offered 
up as human saci'ifices by thousands to their heathen Gods, in the 
shape of black huge serpents. But you, like "Judas Iscariot" have 
betrayed the Son of God, for less than thirty pieces of silver. And 
your end shall be like his, sooner or later; for God alone occupies 
the eternal throne and will not be mocked, and his judgments shall 
find you out. You may be protected behind the popular influences 
awhile, but your sin shall find you out. For you have done this 
wickedness with your eyes wide open ; therefore you have no 
excuse. You now exult over the slaughter of the tens of thousands 
of your own countrymen and blood on the battle field, and you exult 
over the hundreds of millions of private property that has been 
and is being destroyed by armed forces. And you exult over 
the reports, that your own race and blood, old men and women, 
young women and children, being driven from their homes by 
black negroes under Federal authority, and left to perish in the 
woods and swamps. You exult over all this because it ends consti- 
tutional liberty, and establishes a monarchy, and places our con- 
sciences in the hands of some profane Provost Marshal. If you doubt 
this, look at Norfolk, Portsmouth and Memphis, and you will be 
satisfied. Do you suppose God will wink at these enormities and 
atrocities, that have excelled anything in the darkest ages of bar- 
barism? And to cover your flagrant treason against the United 
States Government, and that of Heaven, you join the mass of traitors 
outside the Church, in crying treason and Copperhead against all whom 
you know to be true to the Constitution and Union on Christian principles. 
" Ye hypocrites, ye generation of vipers, how shall ye escape the 
damnation of hell." You have labored incessantly since 1803 and 
1804 to break up the Union of States. And now you find you have 
been successful, you cry out against those who have opposed you 
from the beginning in your diabolical treason against this God-like 
Government, that could never have been thus formed, had not God 
directed the hearts of the " people" that formed it. It seems almost 
supernatural. Man could never have planned such a glorious system 
for a human government, had not God been with him. Therefore 
New England tyrants and despots formed secret leagues of armed 
forces to destroy it as far back as 1804. Slavery was not the plea 



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then for its destruction, and is only a pretext now for the over- 
throw of the "people's" government, and the establishment of a 
monarchy on its ruins. 

I call upon all the "people" who love constitutional liberty and 
apprise our free institutions, of whatever party they may be, to rise 
in tlie power that God hath bestowed upon them, and let us prepare 
to defend ourselves at the ballot box. We have a vast majority 
throughout the country, and if necessary, let us wade through blood 
for fair play in our lawful elective franchise; let us not hesitate, 
or we shall be ruined. And if I am to be made a slave to such 
tyrants and devils, let my heart's blood be. wasted, and my body 
made food for buzzards. 

We heard a great deal about the Knights of the G-olden Circle a 
few years ago — an association said to have been formed for the de- 
struction of the United States Government by the Democratic party. 
The people became much alarmed, and in 1861 it was currently re- 
ported that they had taken seventy five houses in this city for the 
purpose of setting them all on fire simultaneously at midnight to 
burn down this great city. There were associations formed to ascer- 
tain whether there were such, and if so, their whereabouts. They 
soon discovered many such associations; one in every ward in Phila- 
delphia, and nearly all the townships throughout the country, and 
found them to be sworn, secret associations, whose design was the 
overthrow of the Constitutional Government of the United States, 
and the establishment of a monarchy on its ruins, and not to burn 
cities. The committees were greatly put to it at first, as all the 
political secret associations they discovered were auxiliaries of what 
is now called the Union League, on Chesnut street, above Eleventh, in 
Philadelphia. Soon after the beginning of the war the Knights of 
the Golden Circle disappeared, and an association called the Sons of 
Liberty appeared in their stead, whose main head-quarters were as 
above. After they were discovered under that name and exposed, 
they dodged behind the name of the Union League. Get the Hon. 
John Quincy Adams' Letters of Exposition, published in the Life of 
Jefferson, the Appendix to the 2d vol., about the 624th page (if I 
remember rightly), and you will clearly see where the Knights of the 
Golden Circle started, and their design. They were not Abolitionists 
in their primitive state, nor until about 1820, at which time they 
took the name of the Sons of Liberty. The Constitution never 
having been attached to any of their names, it is evident, therefore, 
its destruction was their object, simply because it equalized the po- 
litical rights of all the "people," and no despotism could stand while 
it was held as the organic law of the nation. These Sons of Liberty 
got up a scheme between 1856 and 1860, to start a report that the 
.Democratic party had associations formed all over the country, 
called Knights of the Golden Circle, whose design was the destruc- 
tion of the Union of the States. This was designed to hide their own 
treason behind in case they should be discovered in their infidelity. 
They fully circulated this wicked report in 1860 and '61, and since 
then they cry treason against all who dare to stand up for the Con- 
stitution and the Union, as formed by our great and holy sires. They 
have already destroyed the Union of the sovereign States — slaughtered a 
million of their fellow-countrymen and race — ruined the entire nation — 
destroyed Constitutional liberty — repudiated Christianity — ruined the peace 



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and harmony of the Christian or sacred altars — completely ruined the so- 
cial circle — and, what is still more monstrous, they have charged all this 
diabolical treason upon the only pure loyal Ci people" in the nation, who 
protest against the destruction of this great and glorious Government 
formed by our fathers. And these traitors have spent hundreds of 
millions of dollars to do all these abominations, and to attach the " 
blame to the Democratic party. 

I will here give one witness more to strengthen Mr. Adams' testi- 
mony against the pulpits that have mainly ruined the nation. I 
know you (the Republican party and Church) will credit him, though 
you seem determined to crush me and all others who dare speak the 
truth on this all important subject. Alexander Henry, Mayor of 
Philadelphia, said in a speech in December, 1860, in the State House 
Yard to a very large congregation, as follows : 

"Our trouble is, that the South believes the North opposed to their institutions. 
That belief is unfounded and mistaken. But it becomes all to see to it, that where 
public sentiment has been misled, it must be restored to the stand-point occupied 
twenty years since. The unwise rhapsodies of your lecture-rooms and pulpits on the 
subject of slavery must be indignantly frowned upon. It is thus that you may hope 
to abate the agitation which has shaken the Government to its centre." 

The truth is the same to-day as then. 

Therefore, Democrats, awake from your slumber, and behold the 
chasms of political oppression which is only one step in your front, 
and another step may end the controversy and place all except the 
very wealthy where political hope will never again illuminate our 
enslaved spirits. Then let us resolve to take no rest, but blow our 
trumpets aloud for constitutional liberty without ceasing. Let no 
other sounds engage your ears, no human inventions your brains,, 
no anticipated fortunes your hearts no amusements your time 
no partisan politics your money. But let your all be laid on the 
altar of constitutional liberty, and let us all resolve that our 
rights at the ballot box shall be maintained, and that such untold 
frauds on that sacred regulator and safeguard of the working- 
classes, shall not again be alloAved, if it cost us our last drop 
of blood to prevent it, and maintain our rights of suffrage. And that 
the rights of a trial by jury in our own civil courts shall be restored 
to all alike, if we have to wade through rivers of blood. The next 
Presidential election will be our last chance to restore our constitu- 
tional rights. If we allow those Abolition tyrants and traitors to 
defraud us out of the next Presidential election, as they did the Gu- 
bernatorial and congressional elections of 1862 and 1863, we shall 
never be blessed with the opportunity of voting for another in this 
great nation. General George B. MeClellan, or some other conserva- 
tive man, will most likely be our next candidate, and if we do our 
duty he will be elected as sure as God lives and reigns in heaven, 
and we shall be saved from a political hell. If we do not elect him, 
our days of liberty, peace and happiness are already numbered. Re- 
member, that if they beat us, we shall be made slaves to tyrants, but 
if we beat them, "we, the people," shall all be restored to our equal 
rights, as before the Abolition tyrants got the reigns in their sacri- 
crilegious hands. JOHN BELL ROBINSON, 

Corresponding Sec'y of the Maj. Gen. George B MeClellan Club, Philadelphia. 
To whom all orders may be addressed for this Pamphlet, published for the coming 
Presidential Campaign. A two cent stamp must be enclosed for each to be sent 
by mail. Price for single copies, 10 cents; 100 copies, $5; 1000 copies, $30. 



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